CONVICTS PUT TO TORTURE.; California Assembly Committee Reports That Men Were Crippled with Straitjackets.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 -- The Assembly Committee on Prisons has made a report on its investigation of punishment in the San Quentin and Folsom State prisons. They find that the straitjacket and other methods of torture are in use in both institutions, though the results are more disastrous at Folsom than at San Quentin.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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